Almost a Mother
Love, Loss, and Finding Your People When Your Baby Dies
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"After my infant twins died, I couldn’t find anything on the shelves at the bookstore that was actually honest. I found books about grief, sure. Books written by psychologists on the stages of grief and books that assured me that I would find my answers in prayer. This isn’t meant to replace those. Those books are necessary, but in the raw, emotional weeks and months after losing my twins, what I wanted to know more than anything was that I was not crazy."
Christy, a fourth-grade teacher, and her husband, Brian, are raising two adorable children ages 4 and 7 in Onalaska, WI. But Christy has two other children—twins—who died shortly after being born at 21 weeks.
Christy’s captivating memoir about her hopes, her dreams, her loss, her grief, and ultimately, her healing, is a poignantly powerful and brutally honest account of what happens when tragedy hits. We never think it’s going to happen to us. We never think it will happen today. But it does, and it happened to Christy. In an effort to find solace, Christy tried Googling, “What do I do when my baby dies?” Unfortunately, there just aren’t any good resources out there—at least not any that are truly honest, not sugar-coated with clichés. Almost a Mother is Christy’s way of reaching those out to those who have experienced a horrible loss of any kind, of any magnitude, in the hope of building a community of support and love.
And, in her words, “I just wanted to know that I wasn’t crazy because I wanted to punch the pregnant lady at Target in the face.”
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Hits home
I had a stillborn son and this book hit home, it makes you know you are not alone in feeling how you feel.
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- Mike Krueger
- 07-04-22
A Must Listen
I listened to the audiobook version of this book read by the author herself. Her narration brought the story to life for me. I felt like she was sitting next to me sharing her story just to me. It is an intimate story of love, a most heart-wrenching loss, and above all hope. This story taught me a lot about the amazing resilience of the human spirit and how to better, in a more empathetic way, connect with someone who is grieving. Christy’s ability to open her heart and mind to the world through her story is beautiful and to have it told by her was perfect. A must read.
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- Jamie Michalski
- 04-03-24
How much I could relate
I loved her story as heartbreaking as it is. My daughter was born sleeping at 24 weeks. Our stories are different but we feel so many of the same emotions. Thank you for sharing Christy.
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